Apologies for blogging so much about actors and actresses, dear blog readers. But the Golden Globes are taking place this coming weekend.

Moreover, she’s been reading Joe Morgenstern’s “The Year’s Top Performers” article, in the Wall Street Journal of 3 January 2014.

Morgenstern writes: “My favorite performance this year concentrated a universe of bewilderment and self-delusion in the person of a once-vibrant woman and, not incidentally, constituted a master class in how great acting is done.”

More from Morgenstern: “Surely the most spectacular reinvention — self-reinvention — by an actor last year was accomplished by Matthew McConaughey. Over the course of almost two decades he’d done extremely well with playing handsome young men with sharp edges to their psyches, men who often found reason to remove their shirts. Then came his electrifying 2012 appearance as a malign club owner in Magic Mike.”

Self would not really go so far as to call McConaughey’s acting in Magic Mike “electrifying,” but she will say this: One Sunday in June 2012, she descended from her room on an upper floor of Hawthornden, saw the Sunday Guardian on the hall table (people were always trying to be the first to get to it), went to the Sunday magazine and saw on the cover: shirtless Matthew McConaughey, in a cowboy hat, one arm extended to the ceiling. HOOOLY MOLY!!!! Self could not wait to get back to the States so she could see Magic Mike!

Another thing about the Morgenstern article? He has nice things to say about Rescue Dawn. Self just added the film to her Netflix queue.

And BTW, last night’s premiere episode of Justified Season 5 was excellent. Had self drooling all over again. No one can rock blue jeans like Timothy Olyphant. Plus there was a moving tribute to Elmore Leonard from the cast (All hail, Tim O, rocking the thread bracelets and long hair) and producer. It was very moving.